On 15 June 2015 at 13:07, Paul Wouters <p...@nohats.ca> wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jun 2015, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > >> Is the code on how ChromeOS or Android detects captivity part of the >> 'public' code? It seems to do a 'good' job in finding many captive >> portals so might be something to get an idea on how many weird ways >> things are out there. > > > I think everyone does it similarly. Apple, Google, etc. >
I expect so. I was mainly asking because code usually speaks louder than words for developers and so Michael would have a better ability to see what things other groups doing this have run into and why it isn't simple. > You have a web server with a guarantee on no HTTP redirect. You expect > some specific content, typicall "OK" to be there in the proper mime > type. (usually text) If you get different text or a redirect or other > error (eg forbidden) then you assume you're in a captive portal. > > Apple (foolishly) used to use something like http://apple.com/hotspot > on their main site itself, which meant that using a VPN on demand could > never protect apple.com because the iphone had to leave that domain out > of the vpn trigger list or else all hotspot detection would be broken. It > seems they have switched to captive.apple.com with returns "Success". It > has a TTL of 10 (after a CNAME redirect into Akamai) but it is missing > a AAAA record. Guess there aren't many ipv6 captive portals yet :P > > Paul > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
